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Mooney, Thursday October 10th 2013

On Mooney today, with Marty Morrissey...

Marty Morrissey with his unique mix of conversation, information, advice and entertainment. Brenda Donohue samples the atmosphere at the Grand Prix Darts in Dublin, we’ve music from The Willoughby Brothers, and we reveal which primary school in Leinster has won a year’s supply of electricity!

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World Grand Prix Darts Championships

The partypoker.com World Grand Prix Darts Championships are currently taking place in Citywest Hotel in Dublin all this week. Thirty-two top darts players are competing for the €350,000 prize fund and all the big names are there - from ten-times World Champion Phil Taylor to Michael van Gerwen to Gary Anderson!

Our reporter Brenda Donohue has never been to a major darts competition, and last night she went along to have her first experience of the legendary atmosphere at these matches.

The Irish were represented by Connie Finnan from Limerick. He lost but Brenda spoke to his sisters, wife and daughters afterwards...

Tickets for the partypoker.com World Grand Prix are still available every day from 5pm at the box office in Citywest Hotel, Thursday €25, Friday €35, Saturday €35, Sunday €40.

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Bamboo Bikes

Chris Froome of Great Britain won the 2013 Tour de France on his carbon fibre bike. But is it possible that he could have won the great cycling race on a bicycle made of bamboo?

Sitting in a BBC studio in Oxford is a man who, along with his colleague and the help of some students, has engineered a bike made from bamboo! Dr James Broughton is from the Joining Technology Research Centre, at Brookes University, and he joins Marty and Brenda to explain how bamboo bikes could revolutionise the cycling industry...

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Fuel Your School - LEINSTER Winner!

If you’ve been listening to Mooney this week you’ll know that we’ve been announcing the winners of our Fuel Your School competition in association with Electric Ireland and Green Star.

We had literally hundreds of entries to the competition to find Ireland’s greenest school – with the coveted prize of having their fuel bills covered for a whole year.

On Monday, Terry Flanagan revealed the Connaught winner was Mullaghroe National School in Gorteen Co. Sligo. On Tuesday Richard Collins reported from Letterkenny that the winner there was Ballyraine National School in County Donegal. Yesterday Éanna Ní Lamhna announced our Munster winners from Ardfert Central National School in County Kerry.

And today, we're joined by Jim Wilson, in our Cork studio, to tell us who has won the prize in Leinster...

And congratulations to Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál NS in Carlow!

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The Willoughby Brothers

It is not very often that we have six very handsome men in studio at the same time! But today, Marty and Brenda are joined by Richie, Des, Sammy, Robbie, Johnny and Jerome Willoughby. The brothers – from Coolboy in County Wicklow - are not just easy on the eye! They are also extremely talented singers, and they're in with us today for a tune and a chat!

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